Spoilers Star Trek: Picard 2x09 - "Hide and Seek"
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JANEWAY: I've set Voyager's auto-destruct. If you don't let Seven into Starfleet, I'll vaporize this city and all of you with it.
TOP BRASS: Um, we removed the warp core from the Voyager museum and replaced it with a holographic replica. So go ahead, vaporize us. Would you care for a latte while we all wait for oblivion?
JANEWAY: Computer, end program. Well that didn't work...
TOP BRASS: Um, we removed the warp core from the Voyager museum and replaced it with a holographic replica. So go ahead, vaporize us. Would you care for a latte while we all wait for oblivion?
JANEWAY: Computer, end program. Well that didn't work...
She should have called Sisko and asked him to release poison gas into some planetary atmospheres.
I'm talking about the individual episode. Seasons have an arc, and episodes have an arc as well. But this is my point, I don't think the writers are capable of that, as basic as it may seem.
That's another way of saying lazy writing. And my point stands, it could have easily been a much more satisfying and emotional payoff had they put some effort into it, and not just something you quickly forget.
Action scenes, especially ones involving firearms/phasers, should have emotional stakes and consequences.
Ah. The Sisko-Maneuver!
I could have bought it if the thing just didn't fire. You could get it back. At least it's harmless. Why make it a fucking bomb?
Hey Joe, get my phaser!
Sure! Hey Dan? Where are you? Oh SHI- BOOOM!
I don't think the Romulan Star Empire survived the Earth Romulan War 2156 -2160, and after 240 years with a boot on their throat, you can almost trust your romulan slaves not to steal the silverware.
So no one invented the Cloak in the Confederation Time Line.
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Unfortunately tons of serialized TV these days is written without each individual episode having a coherent three-part arc. That's not a fault of Picard, that's just the expectations of the "10-hour movie" era.
Yes, it's a bad line. There are a lot of bad lines in this episode, albeit less than a few episodes back. But it's more important for an episode to get the "big things" right, along with (this late into a serialized season of TV) start paying off the season arcs. It did both of those.
40% glaring, 25% shouting and 35% Jambalaya.
I disagree but I understand your perspective.
Ahh yes, because we all know the way the Trekverse works...technology is only invented one time, by one race, and if they don't create it, none of the thousands upon thousands of races will ever use the scientific method to discover the same thing.
Thanks. Honest mistake missing that on my part.
Pity they didn't go with the Emergency C'thulu Hologram...
Just kidding.
An Emergency Combat Hologram should have, like, razor claws for hands and swords for arms and spit shurikens out of its mouth. For starters.
Kudos to Agnes for resurrecting poor Elnor, however. She couldn't have stalled the Queen without him.
Just kidding.
An Emergency Combat Hologram should have, like, razor claws for hands and swords for arms and spit shurikens out of its mouth. For starters.
Kudos to Agnes for resurrecting poor Elnor, however. She couldn't have stalled the Queen without him.
Very Pulp Fiction of him, wasn't it? I was expecting his face to light up a little more, like Butch's in the pawn shop.
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I heard through the grapevine the Parasites make an appearance in Strange New Worlds and they'll figure prominently in Discovery Season 5. Their plan will be 930 years in the making, by the time Burnham single-handedly stops them all.
This is where someone else here chimes in and says, "See?! I knew it! I FUCKING KNEW IT!!!!"
"Teh Burnham" >>>> "Teh Sisko"!!!
And 25% different!
I'm just glad they explained why Picard's later visions and memories of his mother were as an old woman. When they revealed Yvette dead from hanging herself my first thought was: "Well, this is gonna complicate his vision of his mother in TNG. How do they explain that now?" Kudos to the producers for doing the homework to recall that scene and incorporate an explanation.
She was just repeating back what Agnus had probably been screaming in her ear all along.
Overall great episode. We are starting to see some payoff for earlier in the season.
The good:
I love the Jurati arc. It's a great ending for both the BQ and Jurati. It also opens up a number of interesting potential Borg stories for the future.
The themes of love, loss, and guilt were well done. Rafi coming to terms with the death of Elnor and Picard having to accept the death of his mother and his hand in it worked.
There was a good blend of drama and action.
Weakness-and these are minor:
I (sort of) agree that the exploding phaser was a miss. I would have rather if that had been a bluff and the phaser just not worked. (However, I am on the fence with this as a Starfleet phaser shouldn't explode but we really don't know the source of the phasers on the La Sirena).
Picard's hide and seek memories did seem a bit long. By the time they show what happened, it felt perhaps less surprising than it should have if it were tightened a bit.
Overall, I gave it a 9 as it's a very rewatchable episode with some solid character moments.
The good:
I love the Jurati arc. It's a great ending for both the BQ and Jurati. It also opens up a number of interesting potential Borg stories for the future.
The themes of love, loss, and guilt were well done. Rafi coming to terms with the death of Elnor and Picard having to accept the death of his mother and his hand in it worked.
There was a good blend of drama and action.
Weakness-and these are minor:
I (sort of) agree that the exploding phaser was a miss. I would have rather if that had been a bluff and the phaser just not worked. (However, I am on the fence with this as a Starfleet phaser shouldn't explode but we really don't know the source of the phasers on the La Sirena).
Picard's hide and seek memories did seem a bit long. By the time they show what happened, it felt perhaps less surprising than it should have if it were tightened a bit.
Overall, I gave it a 9 as it's a very rewatchable episode with some solid character moments.
